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every one of us is so great the american teachers who taught us. so why couldn't we give colleges and schools instead of wasting billions and billions in wars which in the end resulted in iran hitting us. >> host: you write bat recent survey of american and afghan soldiers. this is how the afghans view the americans. they always shout and yell and they are crazy. u.s. soldiers swear at us constantly, saying f.-u, their arrogance sickenes us. they don't care about civilian casualties. they pee all over, right in front of civilians, including females. >> guest: peter, quote what the american soldiers said. >> host: this is what the americans thought of the afghan forces. they are turds. i we're better off without them. i don't trust locals. i would never like to admit that iraqis are smarter but they're einsteins compared to afghans. these guys only seem to care about their own tribes. >> guest: back to the tribes. they're right. so, you see how interesting. this is an american survey conducted in washington. and this gives us an insight into two all
every one of us is so great the american teachers who taught us. so why couldn't we give colleges and schools instead of wasting billions and billions in wars which in the end resulted in iran hitting us. >> host: you write bat recent survey of american and afghan soldiers. this is how the afghans view the americans. they always shout and yell and they are crazy. u.s. soldiers swear at us constantly, saying f.-u, their arrogance sickenes us. they don't care about civilian casualties. they...
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the end result shouldn't surprise us. it's this spiral of expanding that, welfare, regulation that politicians at the expanding welfare beneficiaries have any desire to stop insulting skits about that there's no alternative. but there's a political problem because unfortunately in democracies in which many people see the state as the primary provider of economic security, meaningful restraint of government intervention and spend name is very politically difficult. why? is anyone who promises to try and reduce the scope of intervention in real terms is in many respects at a severe electoral disadvantage. at luxembourg's prime minister jean-claude junker famously lamented in 2007, quote, we all know what we have to do, but we don't know how to get reelected once we have done it, end quote. in other words, if enough people in a democracy what security through the state regardless of cost, capacity politicians to oppose desires of 51% of the population is very limited. because to resist is to court electoral rejection rsp sta
the end result shouldn't surprise us. it's this spiral of expanding that, welfare, regulation that politicians at the expanding welfare beneficiaries have any desire to stop insulting skits about that there's no alternative. but there's a political problem because unfortunately in democracies in which many people see the state as the primary provider of economic security, meaningful restraint of government intervention and spend name is very politically difficult. why? is anyone who promises to...
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it is a tragic thing but the leverage the church uses there used to be children there would have them on the ship and hubbard had a theory that children are not different from adults they are just small. [laughter] therefore they should be treated as you retreat and adults so when a child misbehaves he came up with one punishment was to put them in the chain locker for the anchor is stored it is cold and dark and they would be said that not allowed out to go to the bass ever go to sleep but put in there for days or weeks he actually put a deaf girl down they're hoping she would regain her hearing. the treatment of children became a huge issue early on and then it was decided we can't have kids here. there was a ranch they built their own dormitories and gave themselves schooling with very little adults supervision. it came to pass the decision was made no more kids that if you get pregnant you have the choice, you could leave the sea-org with the consequences losing your ties tear families and very little to look forward to and the sense of losing eternal salvation or the send off to
it is a tragic thing but the leverage the church uses there used to be children there would have them on the ship and hubbard had a theory that children are not different from adults they are just small. [laughter] therefore they should be treated as you retreat and adults so when a child misbehaves he came up with one punishment was to put them in the chain locker for the anchor is stored it is cold and dark and they would be said that not allowed out to go to the bass ever go to sleep but put...
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their argumented made no sense to us. such well-worn phrases as tax cuts pay for themselves, will we'll be welcomed as libattors, climb change is improving and government-run health care doesn't work, were repeated over and over again republican arguments seem as incomprehensible to democrats were as much misguided to them. the free market principles they took as given conflicted with the information we took every day from our constituents and the economists we consulted. news speed media preoccupation with lack of civility missed the point. i traveled withcongressional members to afghan and enjoyed they're company. we worked out together in the house gym. still more socializing with each other would not have breached khasm. congress is crippled from making bipartisan, strategic, public policy decisions. this is our greatest institutional weakness and defies simplistic cures. congress today is deeply divided because to each side, the opinions of the other make no sense. and, therefore, cannot be honestly held. interest gr
their argumented made no sense to us. such well-worn phrases as tax cuts pay for themselves, will we'll be welcomed as libattors, climb change is improving and government-run health care doesn't work, were repeated over and over again republican arguments seem as incomprehensible to democrats were as much misguided to them. the free market principles they took as given conflicted with the information we took every day from our constituents and the economists we consulted. news speed media...
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i think it is useful. these deeper cultural and political trends and deeper conflict within the american psyche, it is more responsible than gerrymandering. the reason i say that is you get pretty much the same kind of politics in the u.s. senate we cannot gerrymander the district. two per state, and in governor's races. governors represent the entire state. it is not about distance, but in congressional races and in state legislative races it can be a factor. and both parties have become very sophisticated choosing there voters instead of having the voters choose them. and so i believe generally bipartisan commissions. but like to see it all run by separate commissions with judicial review rather than have it be done by state legislature. and have it done only once in a decade. we have already talked in virginia about doing what taxes did under tom delay a few years back. that is just poisonous. transparent, if you do if it won such as census comes in and then you get a different majority in the legislatu
i think it is useful. these deeper cultural and political trends and deeper conflict within the american psyche, it is more responsible than gerrymandering. the reason i say that is you get pretty much the same kind of politics in the u.s. senate we cannot gerrymander the district. two per state, and in governor's races. governors represent the entire state. it is not about distance, but in congressional races and in state legislative races it can be a factor. and both parties have become very...
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this document, which you can get if you like, doesn't use the word freedom, it doesn't use the word democracy, it doesn't mention the particular leaders and it doesn't talk about the regime types or radical islamic and certainly doesn't mengin wmd. it says instead, quote, access to the persian gulf oil is vital to national security interests, period. memories of hostages in iran destroy the barracks in beirut and that is reason enough to worry and this context matters understanding of the widespread reluctance to do more in response to the invasion. for saddam hussein didn't current-gen as i mentioned before that long-range destruction of oil. moreover, the middle east wasn't a particularly appealing place for those in american politics with a sense of short to medium and long-term history. tikrit sample the secretary of state, james baker, who at this point had advised presidents for decades or years excuse me, but had been one of his closest friends for decades. he was secretary of state, and upon hearing this news, contemplating it, getting back to washington, he wasn't in washington at th
this document, which you can get if you like, doesn't use the word freedom, it doesn't use the word democracy, it doesn't mention the particular leaders and it doesn't talk about the regime types or radical islamic and certainly doesn't mengin wmd. it says instead, quote, access to the persian gulf oil is vital to national security interests, period. memories of hostages in iran destroy the barracks in beirut and that is reason enough to worry and this context matters understanding of the...
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never to join us on stage. ambassador graduated from texas a&m university in 1969. >> hoo-ha. >> he's a career foreign service officer at the time of desert shield and desert storm. he was deputy chief of mission in romania wher where he receive state department's distinguished honor award for leadership of the embassy during -- [inaudible] spandex i'd like to ask lieutenant general randy house to join us. general howe's graduate from texas a&m university in 1967. >> hoo-ha. >> and received regular army commission and after. he is commit at every level in peace and war from platoon leader the deputy commander of u.s. pacific command. during desert shield, desert storm, he commanded the 22nd brigade like jack brigade and the first calvary division. lieutenant general house brigade execute the coalition plan against saddam hussein's army making multiple bloody incursions, prior to the start of the ground operations. these actions to see the iraqis into putting the coalition would attack from the south in the vici
never to join us on stage. ambassador graduated from texas a&m university in 1969. >> hoo-ha. >> he's a career foreign service officer at the time of desert shield and desert storm. he was deputy chief of mission in romania wher where he receive state department's distinguished honor award for leadership of the embassy during -- [inaudible] spandex i'd like to ask lieutenant general randy house to join us. general howe's graduate from texas a&m university in 1967. >>...
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sometimes used well it can be a useful tool, but i think more often than not it's used as an evasion. >> thank you. the united states has not won a war since 1945. this combat looks an awful lot like vietnam. there's no difference between the republicans and the democrats except ron paul. i'm wondering, are we ever going to see the united states completely pull out of the mideast? it's leading some people to think that we might be there for oil or minerals or even the heroin trade, for that matter. and -- >> heroin trade? >> so i'm really concerned about this. >> well, no, you raise a good point. world war ii is, actually, in the annals of military history since and going way back, world war ii is kind of an anomaly. there really haven't been a lot of wars in history that lead to the total surrender of the enemy. most wars, and particularly the kinds of wars that we're getting involved in now, you know, rightly or wrongly end with some kind of negotiation or some kind of division of power or some new power arrangement between, you know, some kind of coalition. and so it is uncomfortab
sometimes used well it can be a useful tool, but i think more often than not it's used as an evasion. >> thank you. the united states has not won a war since 1945. this combat looks an awful lot like vietnam. there's no difference between the republicans and the democrats except ron paul. i'm wondering, are we ever going to see the united states completely pull out of the mideast? it's leading some people to think that we might be there for oil or minerals or even the heroin trade, for...
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that corpsman could have used you. he had been applying pressure under the his captain's arms for a long time. didn't realize that guy bled out along time before we got him. he just sat there, the corpsman, staring into space. you wouldn't answer our questions or talk to anybody. that might be a good person for me to see, i said. is he still here? no, they took him back with them this morning. probably best, kicking the wooden floor of the tent looking at her flip-flop clad feet. another came in with him, a gunny, triple and beauty who lost one leg below the knee, one at the head and another below the elbow. he was amazing. she took a deep breath and exhales through pursed lips. things for getting tent for a while. the look on my face must have been stressed. i was running past him once trying to get some supplies and he said to me i felt horrible. i thought oh no, he needs more morphine and i have been so busy i missed it. i went over to him and said have you been okay? do you need anything? i need to ask you somethin
that corpsman could have used you. he had been applying pressure under the his captain's arms for a long time. didn't realize that guy bled out along time before we got him. he just sat there, the corpsman, staring into space. you wouldn't answer our questions or talk to anybody. that might be a good person for me to see, i said. is he still here? no, they took him back with them this morning. probably best, kicking the wooden floor of the tent looking at her flip-flop clad feet. another came...